Reuters comments PM’s appointment: Romania’s president bets on Putin plan

Newsroom 21/02/2012 | 12:54

“The president of a former communist country in economic turmoil anoints a security service chief as his successor. Sound familiar?,” says Reuters in a piece dedicated to the appointment of Mihai Razvan Ungureanu as prime-minister, also adding that “he stands a strong chance of winning the presidency of Romania two years from now.”

“Romania’s Traian Basescu has named old ally Mihai Razvan Ungureanu prime minister and he is now the likely party candidate for the presidency when Basescu’s term expires in 2014, senior party members said, a move that would echo Boris Yeltsin’s promotion of Vladimir Putin in Russia more than a decade ago,” says Reuters.

About former prime-minister Emil Boc, Reuters said that he “put the economy back on track by enforcing austerity measures but the resulting slide in popularity left him little chance of posting a decent electoral result after anti-government protests swept the country.”

On the other hand, “the 43-year-old former foreign minister and intelligence head Ungureanu has restored the mood of the unpopular centrist Democrat-Liberal Party (PDL) before a November parliamentary election in the European Union’s second poorest member.”

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Otilia Haraga

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